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Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the most up-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-term care in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and offers a description and analysis of each system. Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reform agendas in Europe Compares countries comparatively less studied with the experiences of reform in Germany, the UK, Netherlands and Sweden Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate in each country and portrays a description and analysis of each system Contributions from a wide range of European scholars for an exceptionally broad perspective
Reforming Long-term Care in Europe offers the mostup-to-date analysis of the features and developments of long-termcare in Europe. Each chapter focuses on a key question in thepolicy debate in each country and offers a description and analysisof each system.* Offers the very latest analysis of long-term care reformagendas in Europe* Compares countries comparatively less studied with theexperiences of reform in Germany, the UK, Netherlands andSweden* Each chapter focuses on a key question in the policy debate ineach country and portrays a description and analysis of eachsystem* Contributions from a wide range of European scholars for anexceptionally broad perspective
Editorial Introduction (Joan Costa-Font).1. Long-term Care: A Suitable Case for Social Insurance(Nicholas Barr).2. The Long Road to Universalism? Recent Developments in theFinancing of Long-term Care in England (Adelina Comas-HerreraRaphael Wittenberg and Linda Pickard).3. Reforming Long-term Care Policy in France:Private-Public Complementarities (Blanche Le Bihan andClaude Martin).4. Sustainability of Comprehensive Universal Long-term CareInsurance in the Netherlands (Frederik T. Schut and Bernardvan den Berg).5. Social Insurance for Long-Term Care: An Evaluation of theGerman Model (Heinz Rothgang).6. Long-term Care in Central and South-Eastern Europe:Challenges and Perspectives in Addressing a 'New'Social Risk (August Österle).7. Devolution, Diversity and Welfare Reform: Long-term Care inthe 'Latin Rim' (Joan Costa-Font).8. One Uniform Welfare State or a Multitude of WelfareMunicipalities? The Evolution of Local Variation in Swedish ElderCare (Gun-Britt Trydegård and Mats Thorslund).9. Reforming Long-term Care in Portugal: Dealing with theMultidimensional Character of Quality (Silvina Santana).Index.